Victoria, BC · Private foundation
Allen & Loreen Van de Kerk Hove Family Foundation
The Foundation's objective is to make donations to selected charities on Vancouver Island.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k6 grants · C$39k
- C$10k–50k12 grants · C$222k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WECANSHELTER SOCIETY | C$38,000 |
| ISLAND PROSTATE CENTRE | C$30,000 |
| ST JOSEPHS PARISH | C$25,000 |
| SAANICH PENINSULA HOSPITAL & HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | C$25,000 |
| COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION (BACKPACK BUDDIES) | C$20,000 |
| THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 63 (SAANICH) | C$15,000 |
| NOURISH COWICHAN SOCIETY | C$15,000 |
| ST PAUL'S FOUNDATION | C$14,420 |
| VICTORIA BRAIN INJURY SOCIETY | C$10,000 |
| SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY OF BC | C$10,000 |
| BRAEFOOT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION | C$10,000 |
| AIR RESCUE ONE HELI WINCH SOCIETY | C$10,000 |
| VICTORIA HUMAN SOCIETY | C$8,000 |
| VANCOUVER ISLAND SYMPHONY | C$7,500 |
| WITS PROGRAMS FOUNDATION | C$7,000 |
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +77% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$60k went to new ones.
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.”
Backed again, and grew
- DODIOCESE OF VICTORIA8× · 2017–2024 · C$300k · revenue +392% · 88% of their budget
- SPSaanich Pennisula Hospital8× · 2017–2024 · C$156k · revenue +66%
- NCNOURISH COWICHAN SOCIETY7× · 2018–2024 · C$106k · revenue +220%
Funded once
- DFDAVID FOSTER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · C$50k · revenue +179%
- CHCHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER ISLANDone grant, 2019 · C$25k · revenue +4%
- CHCanadian Heritage Arts Societyone grant, 2017 · C$21k · revenue -54%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matches that aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The role of the vcha is to promote and provide for the physical mental and social well-being of people who live in the vancouver coastal region and through referral from outside the region.
Residential care homes: in-house support programs; individualized day programs; and support for individuals who contract to support persons with disabilities in the individual's family home. Information referral and advocacy on autism…
Special Olympics British Columbia Society provides year-round sport training and competitive activities that lead to participation in regional provincial and national events providing opportunities for individuals with intellectual…
The British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch (BCMHS) provides a diverse range of provincial specialized one-of-a-kind services for adults across the province; as well as provincial leadership for system-wide planning, research and…
Affordable individual and group counselling services to residents of Nanaimo and surrounding communities. Awareness and education about mental health and emotional health wellness issues. Development of future mental health practitioners…
Provides residential community and day service supports to children teens and adults with intellectual disabilities and their families in the Greater Victoria area
The Victoria Symphony Society provides orchestral music to southern Vancouver Island. It provides concerts and educates people through its outreach programs and contributes to the artistic and cultural endeavours of different communities.
Island health plans and delivers health care services to the residents of vancouver island in the province of british columbia. health care services include but are not limited to acute care long-term care home support addictions mental…
Providing programs to caregivers and parents of autistic children including a caregiver respite family food bank caregiver support events community autism library and family support events.
VSAC provides crisis intervention justice-related support services and counselling programs for those affected by sexual assault and/or childhood sexual abuse. The Sexual Assault Response Team provides 24-hour emotional support to recent…
Training program to train veterans and others to work with dogs to create a lasting bonded relationship.
Comox valley healthcare foundation (cvhf) raises funds through a variety of methods to support the general advancement of healthcare and healthcare related services in the comox valley. cvhf provides funding for medical and diagnotic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eldercare Foundation of Vancouver Island and the most unlike its peers is We Rage We Weep Alzheimer Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own CRA returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 62 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DIOCESE OF VICTORIA ↗
- Who funds Saanich Pennisula Hospital ↗
- Who funds ISLAND PROSTATE CENTRE ↗
- Who funds NOURISH COWICHAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Braefoot Community Association ↗
- Who funds SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY OF BC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES GREATER VICTORIA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION (BACKPACK BUDDIES) ↗
- Who funds CLEMENTS CENTRE FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds DAVID FOSTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AIR RESCUE ONE HELI WINCH SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Comox Valley Therapeutic Riding Society ↗
- Who funds Victoria Therapeutic Riding Association ↗
- Who funds WECANSHELTER SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds St.Joseph's Catholic School ↗
- Who funds VICTORIA BRAIN INJURY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH RECOVERY PARTNERS SOUTH ISLAND ↗
- Who funds Vernon Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 63 (SAANICH) ↗
- Who funds Stigma Free Zone Society ↗
- Who funds BC and Alberta Guide Dogs ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER ISLAND ↗
- Who funds WITS Programs Foundation ↗
- Who funds Canadian Heritage Arts Society ↗
- Who funds Salvation Army ↗
- Who funds VERNON SEARCH & RESCUE GROUP SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BC Childrens Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds A.V. NEIGHBOURHOOD LINK SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NCDCS ↗
- Who funds VICTORIA HUMAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE PACIFIC TRAINING CENTRE FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds The Anawim Companions Society ↗
- Who funds BC FEDERATION OF FOSTER PARENT ASSOCIATIONS ↗
- Who funds ALS SOCIETY OF BC ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH ISLAND CENTRE FOR CONSELLING AND TRAINING ↗
- Who funds ABBEYFIELD HOUSES SOCIETY OF DUNCAN ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VICTORIA CARDIAC REHABILITATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Shelbourne Community Kitchen ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Victoria Foundation · First West Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · United Way Southern Vancouver Island · Charlton L Smith Charitable Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Anglican Synod of the Diocese of British Columbia · Sovereign Order of St. John Victoria Commandery Foundation · Lohn Foundation · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · The Western Communities Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.